Ramshaw and the Houston Chronicle’s Terri Langford on incidents of abuse and mistreatment at residential treatment centers, M. Smith on the state Republican Party platform and 10th Amendment embracers, Galbraith on a pipeline project raising crude concerns and the most important word in water law, Ramsey on former officeholders who are now lobbyists and the possibility of a speaker’s race, Grissom on a fight over solar power in Marfa, Hamilton and Aguilar on the TxDOT audit, Philpott on budget cuts affecting school districts and my conversation with Dallas County D.A. Craig Watkins: The best of our best from June 7-11, 2010.
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
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The Polling Center: Green Pastures Yield a Small Harvest
The potential Green Party drain of votes away from the Democrats is probably pretty small.
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GOP Convention: The Live Blog
Live-blogging from the biennial convention of the Republican Party of Texas.
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2010: Together Again
Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison are together again, politically speaking. Hutchison told a crowd of Republican women in a packed ballroom at the downtown Dallas Hyatt that she’s backing Perry for governor and that they should, too.
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The Brief: June 11, 2010
Get out your streamers and sparkles and red, white and blue (oh, and your cowboy boot raffle ticket, too). It’s the state Republican convention!
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Criminal Justice
Fewer Sex Offenders in the DPS Database?
There are more than 61,000 registered sex offenders in the Texas Department of Public Safety’s database. Some think the list includes people who aren’t a threat to society and that the stigma of being on it hurts them more than it helps the greater community. Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune has this report.
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The Party Line
This weekend, some 14,000 true believers will congregate in Dallas for the state Republican convention, the largest such gathering in the nation. Other than electing a chairman, the main event will be developing a platform — a manifesto meant to be the ideal vision for the future of the Texas GOP. Just don’t ask them all to agree to it. If they did, “it’d be a very dull convention and a very short document,” says Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson.
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TribLive: Craig Watkins
Evan Smith’s 35-minute interview with Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins, from the Tribune’s TribLive event series.
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Energy
Crude Concerns
In the wake of the Gulf spill, anxiety is building about a proposed pipeline that would run through East Texas, ferrying Canadian oil to Port Arthur and Houston for refining.
